Crossword clues for minke
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of small whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), 1939, supposedly from the Norwegian surname Meincke.\n\nThe name minke is said to have derived from one of Svend Foyn's crew by the name of Meincke, who mistook a school of these whales for blue whales. Whalers all over the world considered this incident so amusing that they used his name as a household word to describe this species.
[J.N. Tønnessen & A.O. Johnsen, "The History of Modern Whaling" (transl. R.I. Christophersen), 1982]
\nAlso known in English as the lesser rorqual and little piked whale.Wiktionary
n. A minke whale, one of two species of baleen whales within ''Balaenoptera'', the northern-dwelling species of which is often seen in coastal waters.
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Usage examples of "minke".
I suspect we would have found fins and seis and minkes and all the other baleens out there, too.
Some were actually mottled blue, like the skin of a blue whale, while others were black like a pilot whale, or light gray like a minke whale.
In March, a 10-ton Minke whale died near Big Pine Key after being shot five times by unknown persons.
Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale.
Nate say them Japanese going to kill our minkes if you don't work hard.
We are now seriously threatening the sur vival even of those relatively little baleen whales, the Minkes and the Brydes (now being actively hunted by catchers from Norway), as well as the White Whales^Be luga) and the Potheads (Pilot Whale).
If we'd been able to look around, I suspect we would have found fins and seis and minkes and all the other baleens out there, too.
Overcrowded prisons meant that the nonserious offenders had to be released early, and Minke was regarded as nonserious by everyone except Walter.